The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-05-04
Two Prominent Tar-HCel Citi-
zcnS VINO Now utilize MIonu-
mcNt.
A%shcyillo y. c., Correspondence TO Bos-
ton Globe.

IltSllt.
A~shcyillo y. c., correspondence TO Bos-
ton Globe.
BILLNYE
Living in North Carolina, as /
have all the past winter, my mem
Dry frequently brings back two
prominent men Of this state who
have passed away, but whose his
tory was remarkable in many ways.
These mon, though together, al
most constantly throughput a long
public life, differed materially on
many points. They lived in each
others society for wears, and o
in death they arc still united.
Uud,r one monument in Il quiet
litUc cemetery in the great tar-hrcl
state they lie together awaiting
the day when the sea shall give up
its dead, and when the gentleman
with the cork leg will be see look
ing over the odds and ends of some
old battle field or the backyard of
OF some medical college for his 9th
err limb.
For moro than half q century
these men ate az the same table and
Slcp on the same couch, and vet
thcyAgrcedi in nothing. They wcr
bound together by q tic which death
alone could dissolve.
The indulgcnt reader has alrca-
dy, no doubt, discovered that re
fer to the late gentlemen, Chang
and Eng, better known as the 81
amcsc twins
The men, like most Siamcsc pco-
pie, had their origin Siam, Il forcinn
country ola bright rcI color on the
map of Asia.
AS SiamcSc alone, or simply as
twins, they would have attracted
little attention, and even ) com
bining the two iand becoming ST.
amcse twins they wnuld have died
poor perhaps, but with II conncc-
| ling link which united the the two
ut the base of the brcast-bonc, they
succeeded in acquiring II large for
tune
They havcprovcdb beyond doubt,
think that genius. cannot be ac-
CURED it is a gift. 1t comes not
with the seeking.
Had little Changic and EnGic
gone to school regularly all through
their earlier years and studied with
all their might, it could not have
fitted them for the life they after
ward led, or caused them to attract
the attention Of the whole world.
Nature docs not fit every man to
be SiamcSc twin. Science cannot
aid him in becoming one in after
years. Close study and application
cannot assist him.
TO be II successful twin involves
promptness also. 1t is n matter
that cannot be postpond. And to
be n successful Siamcsc twin in
volcs even greater difficulties.
Chang and Eng, were raised up to
meet q certain demand. The crisis
came, and they were taken there
to mectit. They came at a time
when the world was clamoring for
a pair of buff twins united at the
sturnum by means of light yell
low, first-mortgage bond.
But Chang and Eng were not
happy even with their great wealth
and the fame they had acquired
working an entire new vein.
closely, had not given them the
same ideas and thoughts. They
agreed on nothing 1t IL said.
One was ~ knight Of Pythias,
while the other was a Royal Arch
Mason, and the meetings were on
the same evenings.
People who knew them said 1T
was painful to sec tho stronger of
the two pull the other twin away
to u Knights OF Pythias meeting in
which he felt no interest, or take
him to a revival when he wanted
to go to IL colored ball.
A neighbor tells mc that while
] Chang was Baptist tMl believed